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TheCrazyBrew @thecrazybrew.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I miss the M-n-R Podcast.

Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Now I see why you're chasing this point so hard 😂 anyway, the trope is so obvious it's prob off the table. And I don't see it as Vynnset style thematically but more like the tentacle weirdo from the Morlock Hill story

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Well PQs are cheaper. And I think the comparison is to $1000+ CC decks and not the full cost of everything on the way there (flights and hotels also cost money that doesn't spring out of the precon)

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Thematically it would be the zombie raising trope but with shadow monsters. That part's almost too obvious. Mechanically you'd have to set it apart from Gravy in some way that fits the theme... Maybe you can only play allies from gy if you've lost life. Or you'd need to pay for them with life. Etc

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Well it didn't happen. Basing this mostly on the Morlock Hill story

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yeah it's more the combination where it's the longest season, has PQs + RTNs, doesn't have draft to mix things up, and hasn't impacted CC in ~any way. But luckily the CC format at least is not that bad

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Ok prediction time... I'm going with the base guess that PEN is a light/shadow set called Penumbra. It will feature a Shadow Necromancer and a new Boltyn

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

SUP unfortunately gave us the longest season with the most events* while being the least impactful set in recent history and basically not featuring competitive draft. Can't wait for keynote news, though 🤞 (* Event numbers have generally grown and PQs had extra weeks, haven't actually checked)

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Yeah this is one of the dumbest things I've ever done. I even practiced like 100 games for this event because it's the only tournament I'll get to in like 5-6 months

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Except I forgot I had to change trains and now I'm just having a saturday sitting in trains instead of playing a PQ 😬

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Both. James has talked about some sets being more on top of the hype cycle than others (not with these words but I can't remember exactly) and I feel like this one is purposefully lower hype and power level. Suits me perfectly at this time

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Kayo's perceived meta position curve will be a very steep up and down with 11% day2 conversion 😬

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Lyath has no signature weapon? 😮 Fine, I'll design it myself

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The Reviled cards are calling me. Am I a liar, cheater and a horrible person? 😬 What worries me a bit about this set is that it's the opposite of forcing players to interact with Intimidate, Confidence and quite minimal on-hits

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

23 players finished 9-3+ at Calling Copenhagen 🏆 Within these 23 there were 15 different decks and the most represented was Slippy with 3 copies 😮 If we went back through all the tier 3-4s, I'm not sure we'd find a more balanced spread ⚖️ I'm taking suggestions on making this image even uglier

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Finished Copenhagen at 9-3, 21st. Real happy, although could improve my play a lot in the lost games Now it's time for speculation season! Here's my first take on Super Slam themes & mechanics as a heatmap. This 2-class, 2-talent, Rosetta style draft format shape is my favorite

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

5-2 going into day2 on Mario at Calling Copenhagen. I lost to DIO and Slippy and beat two Gravys so it's an upside down world 🤷 now trying to sleep 12 hours straight, wish me luck

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Flying to Calling Copenhagen today for a true in and out as I'm flying out tomorrow night. Wish me luck with the flight being on time 🤞 woke up 3:20 today but a family man getting a night to sleep alone at the hotel will be a total rejuvenation 😴

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Something I'm missing with this PQ discourse. All posts I see seem to assume they and their carpooling friends are all winning PQs and late season events can't even fire. If your region is anything like Finland, then you'll have 4 PQs of 16-32 people each and missing 1-3 winners is irrelevant

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you re-watch that part of the keynote, it's basically PB with that Iyslander silhouette turning into Silver Age with the fully colored version of the image. It is at least made to look like Silver Age is the fully developed PB. But I also see speculation that it's a supplemental set for PB

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Super Slam has my brain poking me all the time to start breaking the new heroes. Although they're not my fav classes, the abilities ask you to start brewing. Lyath especially... I'm thinking Small attacks with on-hits (Vipox?) Pumps (Nimblism? More expensive ones?) Prevention instead of blocking

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Well it was Blitz and I have no idea what the meta is like so 🤷 in CC Kayo is probably fine into Gravy but pretty horrible into assassins and many random decks so wouldn't play it there

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Well I won the WCQ with Kayo so that's pretty nice 😄 opened Courage of Bladehold

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Missed Finnish Nationals top-8 for the first time, finished 13th. Doubled the attendance from before at 60 players. I really need to start playing faster even when sleep deprived 😩🥱 But there's always next year and the Finnish scene is growing 💪 Blitz WCQ next with a chance to show I'm not washed

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Swift Shot 👀 has at least shaken Azalea's hat meta

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I've always been interested in limited set design and draft format "shapes" Is all that done in design or are there cases where dev impacts the way a draft set is constructed in terms of the various dimensions players have to optimize for (class, talent, hybrid, generic, cross-hero mechanics,...)?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

12 of the 23 missing Ms are exp slot presumably so we're only really missing 11. And most of them according to my number crunching are Generics (kinda like the Diamond Amulet). But hopefully there's a lot of playable rares and commons missing

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Yeah having this much value on one card pays back for the risk. Having arsenaled the previous turn kinda sucks though as that's what you always want to do. So sounds like a Trench angle

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

0-for-7 that doesnt cost an action point? Color me intrigued Being a red block card can really screw your ratios, though, and especially your Ponder draws so you're paying a real price

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

You can just run an off-hand. Kayo could play a shield for example. And they've historically at least had equipment after weapons so there's no space if they keep that logic

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Yep, he's management. His crew can do the dirty work

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Very well could be or even in the armory deck. Or both. But we've never had a weaponless hero in limited before so that's interesting

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Ok so if there's no Necromancer weapon in the set (no space before the Compass or before Dead Threads), do you think we'll get a Pirate cutlass or pistol? Or will Gravy just go with bare hands for the better swimming & summoning feel?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This seems real strong 🤔 but I think it's a much needed consistency piece for Marlynn who I expect to play 25+ blues in order to utilize the 'CnC on a boat' and possibly the cannon. Enables arsenaling blue arrows off of Ponder, etc.

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Playing FaB is just a sideshow for the incredible talent and effort on display by cosplayers

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Never been more hyped. It seems they're testing a tighter spoiler window and I don't mind it. I never get hyped about expansion slot cards anyway

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It seems indeed there are a lot of ships in the set kinda like there are a lot of tanks and robots in EVO

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I think they said in the keynote that it's Gravy's ship. That's where I got the feeling that maybe they all have one

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This art, we don't know what it is yet, do we? I bet each hero has a signature ship and they're all 4 for 7 Pirate attacks and all really strong, although maybe not as broken as Gravy's CnC boat

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I also like fast LLs. People get bored of lame duck formats and the LL points get squandered and disappear from the system

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I love LSS and their openness 🤩 First LL system idea: what would go wrong with a point cap per season per hero? E.g., max 400 points per major set season. That would always ensure a hero gets at least 2.5 seasons or ~10-11 months minimum

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

That's a fair opinion. It's probably a bit too fast but I attribute it to MST being pushed (probably due to the Japanese release). Aurora would've lived at least partly through Nationals if the HNT season wasn't a "double season"

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The points given out could be tied to a set release, e.g., 2500 LL points per set or something. Then that gets spread out over all the events during those ~4 months

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